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{{Short description|Colony of New France in northeastern North America}}
{{About|the land in North America}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2012}}
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|conventional_long_name = Colony of Acadia
|common_name = Acadia
|subdivision = Division
|nation = New France
|image_flag = Pavillon royal de la France.svg
|flag = Flag of France
|flag_type = Flag{{efn|The Royal Banner of [[early modern France]] or "[[House of Bourbon|Bourbon Flag]]" was the most commonly used flag in New France<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1214&ProjectElementID=3952|title=Royal Banner of France – Heritage Emblem|publisher=The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General |author =The Governor General of Canada|work=Confirmation of the blazon of a Flag. February 15, 2008 Vol. V, p. 202|date=12 November 2020 }}</ref><ref name="Association1915">{{cite book|author=New York State Historical Association|title=Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal: 2nd–21st Annual Meeting with a List of New Members|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eog-AAAAYAAJ|year=1915|publisher=The Association|quote=It is most probable that the Bourbon Flag was used during the greater part of the occupancy of the French in the region extending southwest from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi, known as New France... The French flag was probably blue at that time with three golden fleur-de-lis .... }}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/national-flag-of-canada|title=Background: The First National Flags |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date= 2019 |access-date=1 March 2021 |quote=At the time of New France (1534 to the 1760s), two flags could be viewed as having national status. The first was the banner of France – a blue square flag bearing three gold fleurs-de-lys. It was flown above fortifications in the early years of the colony. For instance, it was flown above the lodgings of Pierre Du Gua de Monts at Île Sainte-Croix in 1604. There is some evidence that the banner also flew above Samuel de Champlain's habitation in 1608. ... the completely white flag of the French Royal Navy was flown from ships, forts and sometimes at land-claiming ceremonies.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://inquinte.ca/story/canada-150-years-of-history-the-story-behind-the-flag|title=INQUINTE.CA &#124; CANADA 150 Years of History ~ The story behind the flag|website=inquinte.ca|quote=When Canada was settled as part of France and dubbed "New France," two flags gained national status. One was the Royal Banner of France. This featured a blue background with three gold fleurs-de-lis. A white flag of the French Royal Navy was also flown from ships and forts and sometimes flown at land-claiming ceremonies.}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wallace |first=W. Stewart |author-link=W. Stewart Wallace |title=Flag of New France |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia|The Encyclopedia of Canada]] |volume=II |location=Toronto |publisher=University Associates of Canada |year=1948 |pages=350–351|quote=During the French régime in Canada, there does not appear to have been any French national flag in the modern sense of the term. The "Banner of France", which was composed of fleur-de-lys on a blue field, came nearest to being a national flag, since it was carried before the king when he marched to battle, and thus in some sense symbolized the kingdom of France. During the later period of French rule, it would seem that the emblem...was a flag showing the fleur-de-lys on a white ground... as seen in Florida. There were, however, 68 flags authorized for various services by Louis XIV in 1661; and a number of these were doubtless used in New France}}</ref>}}
|image_map = Acadia 1754.svg
|image_map2 = Carte administrative de l'Acadie.svg
|image_map_caption = Acadia Extension in 1754.
|image_map2_caption = Approximate map of the most commonly accepted definition of Acadia
|capital = Undetermined; <br/>[[Port-Royal (Acadia)|Port-Royal]] ({{lang|la|de facto}})
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|p1 = Canada (New France)
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|s1 = Province of Quebec (1763–1791)
|flag_s1 = Flag of Great Britain (1707–1800).svg
|s2 = Nova Scotia
|flag_s2 = Flag of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg
|s3 = Prince Edward Island
|flag_s3 = Flag of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg
|s4 = New Brunswick
|flag_s4 = Flag of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg
|s5 = Province of Massachusetts Bay
|flag_s5 = Red Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg
|year_start = 1604
|event_end = [[Treaty of Utrecht|British conquest]]
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|demonym = [[Acadian]]
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'''Acadia''' ({{langx|fr|Acadie}}) was a colony of [[New France]] in northeastern [[North America]] which included parts of what are now the [[The Maritimes|Maritime provinces]], the [[Gaspé Peninsula]] and [[Maine]] to the [[Kennebec River]].{{sfn|Williamson|1832|pages=27, 266, 293}} Settlers primarily came from the [[Regions of France|southwestern regions of France]], including [[Poitou-Charentes]] and the Aquitaine region (now known as [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]]), as well as [[Poitou]] and  [[Anjou, France|Anjou]]. The territory was originally inhabited by various  [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] of the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] who referred to the region as [[Wabanaki Confederacy|Dawnland]].<ref name="t632">{{cite book | last=Lennox | first=Jeffers | title=North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution | publisher=Yale University Press | date=January 1, 2022 | isbn=978-0-300-22612-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWZ4EAAAQBAJ&dq=Acadia%2520was%2520originally%2520inhabited%2520by%2520various%2520First%2520Nations%2520of%2520the%2520Wabanaki%2520Confederacy%2520who%2520referred%2520to%2520the%2520region%2520as%2520Dawnland&pg=PA62 | access-date=September 12, 2025 | page=}}</ref>

The first capital of Acadia was established in 1605 as [[Port-Royal (Acadia)|Port-Royal]]. Soon after, English forces of Captain Argall, an English ship's captain employed by the Virginia Company of London attacked and burned down the [[Port-Royal National Historic Site|fortified habitation]] in 1613. A new centre for Port-Royal was established nearby, and it remained the longest-serving capital of French Acadia until the British [[Siege of Port Royal (1710)|siege of Port Royal]] in 1710.{{efn|For the 144 years prior to the founding of Halifax (1749), Port Royal (or Annapolis Royal) was the capital of Acadia for 112 of those years. The other locations that served as the capital of Acadia are: [[LaHave, Nova Scotia]] (1632–1636 ), [[Castine, Maine]] (1670–1674), [[Beaubassin]] (1678–1684), [[Jemseg, New Brunswick]] (1690–1691), [[Fredericton, New Brunswick]] (1691–1694), and [[Saint John, New Brunswick]] (1695–1699).<ref name="Dunn2004">{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Brenda|title=A History of Port-Royal-Annapolis Royal, 1605-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9c4hPwAACAAJ&pg=PP1|year=2004|publisher=Nimbus Publishing, Limited|isbn=978-1-55109-740-4}}</ref>}} 
There were six colonial wars in a 74-year period in which British interests tried to capture Acadia, starting with [[King William's War]] in 1689.

French troops from Quebec, Acadians, the Wabanaki Confederacy, and French priests continually raided New England settlements along the border in Maine during these wars. Acadia was conquered in 1710 during [[Queen Anne's War]], while New Brunswick and much of Maine remained contested territory. Prince Edward Island (Île Saint-Jean) and Cape Breton (Île Royale) remained under French control, as agreed under Article XIII of the [[Treaty of Utrecht]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Chalmers |first=George |title=A Collection of Treaties Between Great Britain and Other Powers |url=https://archive.org/details/acollectiontrea00britgoog |year=1790 |page=[https://archive.org/details/acollectiontrea00britgoog/page/n407 381] |publisher=J. Stockdale}}</ref> The English took control of Maine by defeating the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French priests during [[Father Rale's War]]. During [[King George's War]], France and New France made significant attempts to regain mainland Nova Scotia. The British took New Brunswick in [[Father Le Loutre's War]], and they took Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean in 1758 following the [[French and Indian War]]. The territory was eventually divided into British colonies.

The term Acadia today refers to regions of North America that are historically associated with the lands, descendants, or culture of the former region. It particularly refers to regions of the Maritimes with Acadian roots, language, and culture, primarily in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands and Prince Edward Island, as well as in Maine.<ref>{{cite book |last=Beaujot |first=Roderic |editor1-last=Ricento |editor1-first=Thomas K. |editor2-last=Burnaby |editor2-first=Barbara |title=Language and Politics in the United States and Canada: Myths and Realities |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NraPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 |year=1998 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-68104-3 |chapter=Demographic Considerations in Canadian Language Policy}}</ref> "Acadia" can also refer to the [[Cajun|Acadian diaspora]] in southern [[Louisiana]], a region also referred to as [[Acadiana]] since the early 1960s. In the abstract, Acadia refers to the existence of an Acadian culture in any of these regions. People living in Acadia are called [[Acadians]], which in Louisiana changed to [[Cajuns]], the more common, rural American, name of Acadians.

==Etymology==

Explorer [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]] is credited for originating the designation Acadia on his 16th-century map, where he applied the ancient Greek name "Arcadia" to the entire Atlantic coast north of [[Virginia]].<ref>{{cite DCB |title=Verrazzano, Giovanni da |first=William F. E. |last=Morley |volume=1 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/verrazzano_giovanni_da_1E.html}}</ref> "Arcadia" is derived from the [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia region]] in Greece, which had the extended meanings of "refuge" or "idyllic place". [[Henry IV of France]] chartered a colony south of the [[St. Lawrence River]] between the 40th and 46th parallels in 1603, and he recognized it as ''La Cadie''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lescarbot |first=Marc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pPrcG_1-PFYC&pg=PA1 |title=Nova Francia: A Description of Acadia, 1606 |date=2013 |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon |isbn=978-0-415-34468-5 |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |page=1 |orig-year=1928}}</ref> [[Samuel de Champlain]] fixed its present orthography with the ''r'' omitted, and cartographer [[William Francis Ganong]] has shown its gradual progress northeastwards to its resting place in the Atlantic provinces of Canada.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Ganong |first=William Francis |date=October 1899 |title=The Origin of the Name Acadia |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Brunswick_Magazine/Volume_3/Number_4/The_Origin_of_the_Name_Acadia |magazine=The New Brunswick Magazine |pages=153–157 |volume=III |issue=4}}</ref>

As an alternative theory, some historians suggest that the name is derived from the [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|indigenous Canadian]] [[Miꞌkmaq language|Mi'kmaw language]], in which Cadie means "fertile land".<ref name="c809">{{cite journal | last=RAYBURN | first=ALAN | title=Acadia/the origin of the name and its geographical and historical utilization | journal=Cartographica | volume=10 | issue=1 | date=1973 | issn=0317-7173 | doi=10.3138/9616-83R9-8772-1G2J | pages=26–43 | url=https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/9616-83R9-8772-1G2J | access-date=September 12, 2025| url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Territory==
[[File:Kennebec River Map.png|thumb|The French claimed that the [[Kennebec River]] formed the border between Acadia and [[New England]], seen here on a map of Maine]]
During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, [[Norridgewock]] on the [[Kennebec River]] and [[Castine, Maine|Castine]] at the end of the [[Penobscot River]] were the southernmost settlements of Acadia.<ref name=Reid1998>{{cite book |first=John G. |last=Reid |chapter=An International Region of the Northeast: Rise and Decline, 1635–1762 |editor1-last=Buckner |editor1-first=Phillip A. |editor2-last=Campbell |editor2-first=Gail G. |editor3-last=Frank |editor3-first=David |title=The Acadiensis Reader: Atlantic Canada Before Confederation |publisher=Acadiensis Press |edition=third |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/atlanticcanadabe0000unse/page/31 31] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnxIPgAACAAJ&pg=PA31 |isbn=978-0-9191-0744-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/atlanticcanadabe0000unse/page/31 }}</ref><ref name="Griffiths2005">{{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=N.E.S.|title=From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604-1755|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cG4wSmIlziYC&pg=PA61|year=2005|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|isbn=978-0-7735-2699-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Webster |first=John Clarence |author-link=John Clarence Webster |title=Acadia at the End of the Seventeenth Century : Letters, Journals and Memoirs of Joseph Robineau de Villebon, Commandant in Acadia, 1690-1700, and Other Contemporary Documents |publisher=The New Brunswick Museum |date=1934 |page=121 |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1F3AQ4YS }}</ref> 
The French government defined the borders of Acadia as roughly between the [[40th parallel north|40th]] and [[46th parallel north|46th parallels]] on the Atlantic coast.

The borders of French Acadia were not clearly defined, but the following areas were at some time part of French Acadia : 
* Present-day mainland [[Nova Scotia]], with [[Port-Royal (Acadia)|Port Royal]] as its capital. Lost to Great Britain in 1713.
* Present-day [[New Brunswick]], which remained part of Nova Scotia until becoming a separate colony in 1784. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.
* [[Île-Royale (New France)|Île-Royale]], later ''Cape Breton Island'', with the [[Fortress of Louisbourg]]. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.
* [[Île Saint-Jean]], later ''Prince Edward Island''. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.
* The part of present-day [[Maine]] east of the [[Kennebec River]]. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.

==History==
===17th century===
{{Main|Military history of the Miꞌkmaq people|Military history of the Acadians}}
{{more citations needed section|date=June 2017}}
The history of Acadia was significantly influenced by the great power conflict between France and England, later Great Britain, that occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries.<ref name=Reid1998/> Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Mi'kmaq had been living in Acadia for at least two to three thousand years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Parks Canada Agency |first=Government of Canada |date=2023-06-29 |title=Indigenous culture |url=https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/fortanne/culture/autochtone-indigenous |access-date=2023-12-10 |website=parks.canada.ca}}</ref> Early European settlers were French subjects primarily from the [[Poitou-Charentes]] and [[Aquitaine]] regions of southwestern France, now known as [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]]. The first French settlement was established by [[Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts|Pierre Dugua de Mons]], [[List of Acadian governors|Governor of Acadia]], under the authority of the French King, [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]], on [[Saint Croix Island, New Brunswick|Saint Croix Island]] in 1604. The following year, the settlement was moved across the [[Bay of Fundy]] to [[Port-Royal (Acadia)|Port Royal]] after a difficult winter on the island and deaths from [[scurvy]]. There, they constructed a new [[Port-Royal National Historic Site|habitation]]. In 1607, the colony received bad news as Henri IV revoked Sieur de Mons' royal fur monopoly, citing that the income was insufficient to justify supplying the colony further. Thus recalled, the last of the French left Port Royal in August 1607. Their allies, the Mi'kmaq, agreed to act as custodians of the settlement. When the former lieutenant governor, [[Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just]], returned in 1610, he found the [[Port-Royal National Historic Site|Port Royal habitation]] just as it was left.{{sfn|Faragher|2005|pp=17–19}}

During the first 80 years of the French presence in Acadia, there were numerous significant battles as the English, Scottish, and [[Jurriaen Aernoutsz|Dutch]] contested the French for possession of the colony. These battles happened at Port Royal, [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]],{{efn|Until 1784, New Brunswick was part of Nova Scotia.}} Cap de Sable (present-day [[Port La Tour, Nova Scotia]]), [[Jemseg, New Brunswick|Jemseg]], [[Castine, Maine|Castine]], and [[Baleine, Nova Scotia|Baleine]].

From the 1680s onward, there were six colonial wars that took place in the region (see the [[French and Indian Wars]] as well as [[Father Rale's War]] and [[Father Le Loutre's War]]). These wars were fought between [[New England]] and [[New France]], and their respective native allies. After the British [[Siege of Port Royal (1710)|siege of Port Royal]] in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of British colonial government, but both present-day [[New Brunswick]] and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France, until the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]] of 1763 confirmed British control over the region.

The wars were fought on two fronts: the southern border of Acadia, which New France defined as the [[Kennebec River]] in southern Maine{{sfn|Williamson|1832|pages=27, 266, 293}} and in present-day peninsular Nova Scotia. The latter involved preventing the British from taking the capital of Acadia, Port Royal (See [[Queen Anne's War]]), establishing themselves at [[Canso, Nova Scotia|Canso]] (See [[Father Rale's War]]) and founding Halifax (see [[Father Le Loutre's War]]).

====Acadian Civil War====
{{Main|Acadian Civil War}}
[[File:Madame La Tour Defending Fort St.Jean.jpg|thumb|Siege of [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]] (1645) – d'Aulnay defeats La Tour in Acadia]]
From 1640 to 1645, Acadia was plunged into what some historians have described as a civil war.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} The war was between Port Royal, where the Governor of Acadia [[Charles de Menou d'Aulnay]] de Charnisay was stationed, and present-day [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], where Governor of Acadia [[Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour]] was stationed.<ref>{{cite book|last=MacDonald|first=M.A.|title=Fortune & La Tour: the Civil War in Acadia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gYVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1|year=1983|publisher=Methuen|isbn=9780458958009}}</ref> There were four major battles in the war, and d'Aulnay ultimately prevailed over La Tour.

====King Philip's War====
During [[King Philip's War]] (1675–78), the governor was absent from Acadia (having first been imprisoned in Boston during the [[New Holland (Acadia)|Dutch occupation of Acadia]]) and [[Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin]] was established at the capital of Acadia, Pentagouêt. From there he worked with the Abenaki of Acadia to raid British settlements migrating over the border of Acadia. British retaliation included attacking deep into Acadia in the [[Battle of Port La Tour (1677)]].

====Wabanaki Confederacy====
In response to [[King Philip's War]] in [[New England]], the native peoples in Acadia joined the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] to form a political and military alliance with New France.<ref>{{cite conference |first=Harald E. L. |last=Prins |title=Storm Clouds Over Wabanaki: Confederacy Diplomacy until Dummer's Treaty (1727) |conference=The Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs |location=Amherst, Nova Scotia |date=March 1999 |url=http://www.wabanaki.com/Harald_Prins.htm |access-date=January 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719142815/http://www.wabanaki.com/Harald_Prins.htm |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The Confederacy remained significant military allies to New France through six wars. Until the [[French and Indian War]] the Wabanaki Confederacy remained the dominant military force in the region.

====Catholic missions====
There were tensions on the border between New England and Acadia, which New France defined as the [[Kennebec River]] in southern Maine.{{sfn|Williamson|1832|pages=27, 266, 293}}<ref name="Griffiths2005"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=William Edgar|title=The Road to Canada: The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Je0MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA21|year=2005|publisher=Goose Lane Editions|isbn=978-0-86492-426-1|page=21}}</ref> English settlers from Massachusetts (whose charter included the Maine area) had expanded their settlements into Acadia. To secure New France's claim to Acadia, it established Catholic missions (churches) among the four largest native villages in the region: one on the Kennebec River ([[Norridgewock]]); one further north on the [[Penobscot River]] ([[Penobscot Indian Island Reservation|Penobscot]]); one on the [[Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)|Saint John River]] ([[Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic|Medoctec]]);{{sfn|Grenier|2008|pages=51, 54}}<ref>{{CRHP|14831|Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic National Historic Site of Canada}}</ref><ref>{{DFHD|213|Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic National Historic Site of Canada}}</ref> and one at [[Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia|Shubenacadie]] (Saint Anne's Mission).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northeastarch.com/sainte_anne.html |title=Mission Sainte-Anne: Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia |publisher=Northeast Archaeological Research |archive-date=October 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011031532/http://www.northeastarch.com/sainte_anne.html}}</ref>

====King William's War====
During [[King William's War]] (1688–97), some Acadians, the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] and the French Priests participated in defending Acadia at its border with New England, which New France defined as the [[Kennebec River]] in southern Maine.{{sfn|Williamson|1832|pages=27, 266, 293}} Toward this end, the members of the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]], on the Saint John River and in other places, joined the New France expedition against present-day [[Bristol, Maine]] (the [[siege of Pemaquid (1689)]]), [[Raid on Salmon Falls|Salmon Falls]] and present-day [[Battle of Fort Loyal|Portland, Maine]].

In response, the New Englanders retaliated by attacking [[Battle of Port Royal (1690)|Port Royal]] and present-day [[Battle at Chedabucto (Guysborough)|Guysborough]]. In 1694, the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] participated in the [[Raid on Oyster River]] at present-day [[Durham, New Hampshire]]. Two years later, New France, led by [[Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville]], returned and fought a [[Action of 14 July 1696|naval battle in the Bay of Fundy]] before moving on to raid [[Siege of Pemaquid (1696)|Bristol, Maine]], again.

In retaliation, the New Englanders, led by [[Benjamin Church (ranger)|Benjamin Church]], engaged in a [[Raid on Chignecto (1696)]] and the [[Siege of Fort Nashwaak (1696)|siege of the Capital of Acadia at Fort Nashwaak]].

At the end of the war England returned the territory to France in the [[Treaty of Ryswick]] and the borders of Acadia remained the same.

===18th century===
[[File:Carte de l Acadie, Isle Royale, et pais voisins.jpg|thumb|Acadia in 1757]]

====Queen Anne's War====
During [[Queen Anne's War]], some Acadians, the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] and the French priests participated again in defending Acadia at its border with New England. They made numerous raids on New England settlements along the border in the [[Northeast Coast Campaign (1703)|Northeast Coast Campaign]] and the famous [[Raid on Deerfield]]. In retaliation, Major Benjamin Church went on his fifth and final expedition to Acadia. He raided present-day Castine, Maine and continued with raids against [[Raid on Grand Pre|Grand Pre]], Pisiquid, and Chignecto. A few years later, defeated in the [[siege of Pemaquid (1696)]], Captain March made an unsuccessful [[Siege of Port Royal (1707)|siege on the Capital of Acadia]], Port Royal (1707). British forces were successful with the [[siege of Port Royal (1710)]], while the Wabanaki Confederacy were successful in the nearby [[Battle of Bloody Creek (1711)]] and continued raids along the Maine frontier.<ref>{{cite book |last=Drake |first=Samuel Adams |title=The Border Wars of New England |pages=264–266 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |date=1897 |url=https://archive.org/stream/borderwarsnew00drakrich#page/264/mode/2up}}</ref>

The 1710 conquest of the Acadian capital of Port Royal during the war was confirmed by the [[Treaty of Utrecht]] of 1713. The British conceded to the French "the island called [[Cape Breton]], as also all others, both in the mouth of the river of St. Lawrence, and in the gulph of the same name", and "all manner of liberty to fortify any place or places there." The French established a fortress at [[Louisbourg]], Cape Breton, to guard the sea approaches to Quebec.<ref>{{cite wikisource |title=Peace and Friendship Treaty of Utrecht between France and Great Britain |date=1713 |at=Article XIII}}</ref>

On 23 June 1713, the French residents of Nova Scotia were given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave the region.<ref>{{cite book |last=Doughty |first=Arthur G. |author-link=Arthur G. Doughty |title=The Acadian exiles: a chronicle of the land of Evangeline |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/acadianexileschr00douguoft/page/28 |year=1916 |publisher=Brook and Company |pages=28–46 |chapter=The Oath of Allegiance}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Acadian HeartlandRecords of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768 |work=Nova Scotia Archives |date=April 20, 2020 |pages=263–267 footnote |url=https://novascotia.ca/archives/deportation/archives.asp?Number=ONEII&Page=263&Language=English&Search=allegiance}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doucetfamily.org/heritage/Oath.htm|title=Our Acadian Heritage: Oath Of Allegiance Becomes Sticking Point With Acadians|website=Les Doucet du Monde|access-date=August 1, 2015|archive-date=September 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906175105/http://www.doucetfamily.org/heritage/Oath.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the meantime, the French signalled their preparedness for future hostilities by beginning the construction of [[Fortress Louisbourg]] on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island. The British grew increasingly alarmed by the prospect of disloyalty in wartime of the Acadians now under their rule. French missionaries worked to maintain the loyalty of Acadians, and to maintain a hold on the mainland part of Acadia.

====Dummer's War====
[[File:1720 Chatelain Map of North America - Geographicus - Amerique-chatelain-1720.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|French map of 1720 North America. Acadie extends clearly into present-day New Brunswick.]]
During the escalation that preceded [[Dummer's War]] (1722–1725), some Acadians, the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] and the French priests persisted in defending Acadia, which had been conceded to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht, at its border against New England. The Miꞌkmaq refused to recognize the treaty handing over their land to the English and hostilities resumed. The Miꞌkmaq raided the new fort at [[Canso, Nova Scotia]] in 1720. The Confederacy made numerous raids on New England settlements along the border into New England. Towards the end of January 1722, Governor [[Samuel Shute]] chose to launch a punitive expedition against [[Sébastien Rale]], a Jesuit missionary, at [[Norridgewock]].<ref>{{cite DCB |title=Rale, Sébastien |first=Thomas |last=Charland |volume=2 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/rale_sebastien_2E.html}}</ref> This breach of the border of Acadia, which had at any rate been ceded to the British, drew all of the tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy into the conflict.

Under potential siege by the Confederacy, in May 1722, Lieutenant Governor [[John Doucett]] took 22 Miꞌkmaq hostage at [[Annapolis Royal]] to prevent the capital from being attacked.{{sfn|Grenier|2008|p=56}} In July 1722, the [[Abenaki people|Abenaki]] and [[Miꞌkmaq people|Miꞌkmaq]] created a blockade of Annapolis Royal, with the intent of starving the capital.{{sfn|Murdoch|1865|p=399}} The natives captured 18 fishing vessels and prisoners from present-day [[Yarmouth, Nova Scotia|Yarmouth]] to Canso. They also seized prisoners and vessels from the [[Bay of Fundy]].

As a result of the escalating conflict, Massachusetts Governor Shute officially declared war on 22 July 1722.{{sfn|Murdoch|1865|p=398}} The first battle of Father Rale's War happened in the Nova Scotia [[Acadian theatre|theatre]].{{efn|The Nova Scotia theatre of the Dummer War is named the "Miꞌkmaq-Maliseet War" by John Grenier {{harv|Grenier|2008}} }} In response to the blockade of Annapolis Royal, at the end of July 1722, New England launched a campaign to end the blockade and retrieve over 86 New England prisoners taken by the natives. One of these operations resulted in the [[Battle at Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour)|Battle at Jeddore]].{{sfn|Murdoch|1865|p=399}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Plank|first=Geoffrey|title=An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWwtrvUzceIC&pg=PA78|year=2001|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-1869-8|page=78}}</ref> The next was a raid on Canso in 1723.{{sfn|Grenier|2008|p=62}}<ref>Benjamin Church, p. 289</ref> Then in July 1724 a group of sixty Miꞌkmaq and Wolastoqiyik raided Annapolis Royal.{{sfn|Faragher|2005|pp=164–165}}{{sfn|Dunn|2004|p=123}}

As a result of Father Rale's War, present-day central Maine fell again to the British with the defeat of Sébastien Rale at Norridgewock and the subsequent retreat of the native population from the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers.

====King George's War====
[[File:Samuel Scott - Action Between Nottingham And Mars 1746.jpg|thumb|[[Duc d'Anville Expedition]]: ''Action between {{HMS|Nottingham|1703|6}} and the Mars'']]
[[King George's War]] began when the war declarations from Europe reached the French [[Fortress Louisbourg|fortress at Louisbourg]] first, on May 3, 1744, and the forces there wasted little time in beginning hostilities. Concerned about their overland supply lines to [[Quebec City|Quebec]], they first [[Raid on Canso|raided the British fishing port of Canso]] on May 23, and then organized an attack on [[Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia|Annapolis Royal]], then the capital of [[Nova Scotia]]. However, French forces were delayed in departing Louisbourg, and their [[Miꞌkmaq people|Miꞌkmaq]] and [[Wolastoqiyik|Wolastoqey]] allies decided to [[Siege of Fort Anne|attack on their own]] in early July. Annapolis had received news of the war declaration, and was somewhat prepared when the Indians began besieging [[Fort Anne]]. Lacking heavy weapons, the Indians withdrew after a few days. Then, in mid-August, a larger French force arrived before Fort Anne, but was also unable to mount an effective attack or siege against the garrison, which had received supplies and reinforcements from [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts]]. In 1745, British colonial forces conducted the [[siege of Port Toulouse]] (St. Peter's) and then [[Siege of Louisbourg (1745)|captured Fortress Louisbourg]] after a siege of six weeks. France launched [[Duc d'Anville Expedition|a major expedition]] to recover Acadia in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the death of its commander, the [[Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye|Duc d'Anville]], it returned to France in tatters without reaching its objective. French officer [[Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay]] also arrived from Quebec and conducted the [[Battle at Port-la-Joye]] on Île Saint-Jean and the [[Battle of Grand Pré]].

====Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755)====
{{Main|Father Le Loutre's War}}
[[File:Acadians 2, inset of painting by Samuel Scott of Annapolis Royal, 1751.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Acadians at Annapolis Royal, by [[Samuel Scott (painter)|Samuel Scott]], 1751; earliest known image of Acadians]]
Despite the British capture of the Acadian capital in the [[siege of Port Royal (1710)]], Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Miꞌkmaq. To prevent the establishment of Protestant settlements in the region, Miꞌkmaq raided the early British settlements of present-day [[Shelburne, Nova Scotia|Shelburne]] (1715) and [[Canso, Nova Scotia|Canso]] (1720). A generation later, [[Father Le Loutre's War]] began when [[Edward Cornwallis]] arrived to establish [[Halifax Regional Municipality|Halifax]] with 13 transports on 21 June 1749.{{efn|The framework "Father Le Loutre's War" is developed by John Grenier in {{harvp|Grenier|2008}} ''The Far Reaches of Empire. War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760''. and {{harvp|Grenier|2005}} ''The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814''. He outlines his rationale for naming these conflicts as Father Le Loutre's War}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Akins |first=Thomas B. |title=History of Halifax City |url=https://archive.org/details/historyhalifaxc00akingoog |year=1895 |publisher=Nova Scotia Historical Society |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyhalifaxc00akingoog/page/n15 7]}}</ref> The British quickly began to build other settlements. To guard against Miꞌkmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, they erected fortifications in Halifax [[Citadel Hill (Fort George)|(Citadel Hill)]] (1749), Dartmouth (1750), Bedford (Fort Sackville) (1751), [[Lunenburg, Nova Scotia|Lunenburg]] (1753) and [[Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia|Lawrencetown]] (1754).{{sfn|Grenier|2005}} There were numerous Miꞌkmaq and Acadian raids on these villages such as the [[Raid on Dartmouth (1751)]].

Within 18 months of establishing Halifax, the British also took firm control of peninsular Nova Scotia by building fortifications in all the major Acadian communities: present-day Windsor ([[Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)|Fort Edward]], 1750); Grand Pre ([[Fort Vieux Logis]], 1749) and Chignecto ([[Fort Lawrence]], 1750). (A British fort already existed at the other major Acadian centre of [[Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia]]. Cobequid remained without a fort.){{sfn|Grenier|2005}} Numerous Miꞌkmaq and Acadian raids took place against these fortifications, such as the [[siege of Grand Pre]] (1749).

====Deportation of the Acadians====
{{Main|Expulsion of the Acadians}}
[[File:A View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grymross, by Thomas Davies, 1758.JPG|thumb|[[St. John River Campaign]]: ''A View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grimross'' (present-day [[Arcadia, New Brunswick]]) by [[Thomas Davies (British Army officer)|Thomas Davies]] in 1758. This is the only contemporaneous image of the [[Expulsion of the Acadians]].]]
[[File:Destruction du vaisseau le Prudent et capture du Bienfaisant a Louisbourg 1758.jpg|thumb|Contemporary British [[artist's impression]] of the loss of two French ships during the [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|siege of Louisbourg]] in 1758.]]
In the years after the British conquest, the Acadians refused to swear unconditional oaths of allegiance to the British crown. During this time period some Acadians participated in militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to Fortress Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour.{{sfn|Grenier|2008}} During the [[French and Indian War]], the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting them.<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen E. |last=Patterson |chapter=Indian-White Relations in Nova Scotia, 1749–61: A Study in Political Interaction |editor1-last=Buckner |editor1-first=Phillip A. |editor2-last=Campbell |editor2-first=Gail G. |editor3-last=Frank |editor3-first=David |title=The Acadiensis Reader: Atlantic Canada Before Confederation |publisher=Acadiensis Press |edition=third |year=1998 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/atlanticcanadabe0000unse/page/105 105–106] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnxIPgAACAAJ&pg=PA105 |isbn=978-0-9191-0744-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/atlanticcanadabe0000unse/page/105 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen E. |last=Patterson |chapter=Colonial Wars and Aboriginal Peoples |editor1-last=Buckner |editor1-first=Phillip |editor2-last=Reid |editor2-first=John G. |title=The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2spDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 |date=1994 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4875-1676-5 |page=144}}</ref>

This process began in 1755, after the British [[Battle of Fort Beauséjour|captured Fort Beauséjour]] and began the [[expulsion of the Acadians]] with the [[Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755)|Bay of Fundy Campaign]]. Between six and seven thousand Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia<ref>{{cite book |last=Mouhot |first=Jean-Francois |date=2009 |title=Les Réfugiés Acadiens en France (1758–1785): L'Impossible réintégration? |trans-title=The Acadian Refugees in France, 1758-1785: The Impossible Reintegration? |language=fr |publisher=Editions du Septentrion |isbn=978-2-8944-8513-2}}</ref> to the [[Thirteen Colonies|lower British American colonies]].{{sfn|Faragher|2005}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Lacoursière |first=Jacques |date=1995 |title=Histoire populaire du Québec, Tome 1, des origines à 1791 |trans-title=Folk History of Quebec, Volume 1: From origins to 1791 |language=fr |publisher=Éditions du Septentrion |page=270 |isbn=978-2-8944-8739-6}}</ref> Some Acadians eluded capture by fleeing deep into the wilderness or into [[Canada, New France|French-controlled Canada]]. The Quebec town of L'Acadie (now a sector of [[Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu]]) was founded by expelled Acadians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ville.saint-jean-sur-richelieu.qc.ca/cgi-bin/index.cgi?page=y1_2 |title=Ville de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005041258/http://www.ville.saint-jean-sur-richelieu.qc.ca/cgi-bin/index.cgi?page=y1_2 |archive-date=October 5, 2011}}</ref> After the [[siege of Louisbourg (1758)]], a second wave of the expulsion began with the [[St. John River Campaign]], [[Petitcodiac River Campaign]], [[Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758)|Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign]] and the [[Île Saint-Jean Campaign]].

The Acadians and the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] created a significant resistance to the British throughout the war. They repeatedly raided Canso, Lunenburg, Halifax, Chignecto and into New England.{{sfn|Grenier|2008}}

Any pretense that France might maintain or regain control over the remnants of Acadia came to an end with the fall of Montreal in 1760 and the 1763 [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]], which permanently ceded almost all of eastern New France to Britain. In 1763, Britain would designate lands west of the Appalachians as the "Indian Reserve", but did not respect Miꞌkmaq title to the Atlantic region, claiming title was obtained from the French. The Miꞌkmaq remain in Acadia to this day. After 1764, many exiled Acadians finally settled in [[Spanish Louisiana|Louisiana]], which had been transferred by France to Spain as part of the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]] which formally ended conflict between France and Great Britain over control of North America (the [[Seven Years' War]], known as the [[French and Indian War]] in the United States).<ref name="Marston">{{cite book |title=The French–Indian War 1754–1760 |url=https://archive.org/details/frenchindianwar00mars_617 |url-access=limited |last=Marston |first=Daniel |pages=[https://archive.org/details/frenchindianwar00mars_617/page/n81 84] |publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]] |year=2002 |isbn=0-415-96838-0}}</ref> In Louisiana, the [[demonym]] ''Acadian'' developed into ''Cadien'', anglicized as ''[[Cajun]],''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Glain |first=Olivier |date=2021 |title=The Cajun Renaissance and Cajun English. The Social, the Linguistic, the Imaginary |url=https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/4049 |journal=Anglophonia |volume=32 |doi=10.4000/anglophonia.4049 |issn=2427-0466}}</ref> which was first used as a pejorative term until its later mainstream acceptance.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cleaver |first=Molly |date=2020-10-16 |title=What's the Difference Between Cajun and Creole—Or Is There One? |url=https://hnoc.org/publishing/first-draft/whats-difference-between-cajun-and-creole-or-there-one |access-date=2025-07-21 |website=The Historic New Orleans Collection: First Draft |language=en-US}}</ref>

Britain eventually moderated its policies and allowed Acadians to return to Nova Scotia. However, most of the fertile former Acadian lands were now occupied by British colonists. The returning Acadians settled instead in more outlying areas of the original Acadia, such as Cape Breton and the areas which are now New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.128</ref>

===19th century===
====Acadian Renaissance====
{{Main|Acadian Renaissance}}
[[File:Flag of Acadia.svg|upright|thumb|Modern flag of Acadia adopted 1884]]
Among the Acadian descendants in the Canadian Maritime provinces, there was a revival of cultural awareness which is recognized as an [[Acadian Renaissance]],<ref name=UNESCO>{{cite web |title=A Productive Dykeland and the Birth of a Symbol 1806–1907: The Acadian Renaissance |url=http://www.landscapeofgrandpre.ca/a-productive-dykeland-and-the-birth-of-a-symbol-1806ndash1907.html |website=Landscape of Grand Pré - A World Heritage Site. Section: The Acadian Renaissance |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=13 May 2020 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723122833/http://www.landscapeofgrandpre.ca/a-productive-dykeland-and-the-birth-of-a-symbol-1806ndash1907.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> with a struggle for recognition of Acadians as a distinct group starting in the mid-nineteenth century.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.157</ref> Some Acadian deputies were elected to legislative assemblies, starting in 1836 with [[Simon d'Entremont]] in Nova Scotia.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.133</ref> Several other provincial and federal members followed in New Brunswick and in Prince Edward Island.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.133 and p.159-162</ref>

This period saw the founding of Acadian higher educational institutions: the Saint Thomas Seminary from 1854 to 1862 and then [[University of St. Joseph's College|Saint Joseph's College]] from 1864, both in [[Memramcook, New Brunswick]].<ref>Landry and Lang, pp.167-172</ref> This was followed by the founding of Acadian newspapers: the weekly {{lang|fr|[[Le Moniteur Acadien]]}} in 1867<ref>Landry and Lang, pp.167</ref><ref name=UNESCO/> and the daily {{lang|fr|L'Évangéline}} in 1887 ([[:fr:L'Évangéline|fr]]), named after the [[Evangeline|epic poem]] by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|Longfellow]].

In New Brunswick the 1870s saw a struggle against the [[Common Schools Act of 1871]], which imposed a non-denominational school system and forbade religious instruction during school hours.<ref>Wilbur, p.13</ref> This led to widespread Acadian protests and school-tax boycotts, culminating in the [[Common Schools Act of 1871#1875 Caraquet riots|1875 riots in the town of Caraquet]].<ref>Wilbur, chaps. 2-3</ref> Finally in 1875 a [[Common Schools Act of 1871#Amendment|compromise]] was reached allowing for some Catholic religious teaching in the schools.<ref>Wilbur, p.38</ref>

In the 1880s there began a series of Acadian national conventions.<ref name=CyberAc>{{cite web |title=Historique des conventions nationales |url=http://www.cyberacadie.com/cyberacadie.com/index621c.html?/symboles/Historique-des-conventions-nationales.html |website=l'Histoire acadienne, au bout des doigts |publisher=CyberAcadie |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=fr |quote=Voici une brève description des Conventions nationales acadiennes (1881-1972)}}</ref> The first in 1881 adopted [[Assumption Day]] (Aug.15) as the [[National Acadian Day|Acadian national holiday]]. The convention favored the argument of the priest Marcel-François Richard ([[:fr:Marcel-François Richard|fr]]) that Acadians are a distinct people which should have a national holiday distinct from that of Quebec ([[Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day]]).<ref name=DCB>{{cite web |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Phyllis E. |title=RICHARD, MARCEL-FRANÇOIS |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/richard_marcel_francois_14E.html |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |access-date=22 August 2020 |date=2003}}</ref> The second convention in 1884 adopted other national symbols including the [[flag of Acadia]] designed by Marcel-François Richard, and the anthem [[Ave maris stella#Acadian anthem|Ave maris stella]].<ref name=UNESCO/><ref>Landry and Lang, pp.190-192</ref><ref name=DCB/> The third convention in 1890 created the Société nationale L'Assomption to promote the interests of the Acadian people in the Maritimes.<ref>Landry and Lang p.192-3</ref> Other Acadian national conventions continued until the fifteenth in 1972.<ref name=CyberAc/>

In 1885, the author, historian and linguist [[Pascal Poirier]] became the first Acadian member of the [[Senate of Canada]].<ref>Landry and Lang, pp.196</ref>

===20th century and beyond===
By the early twentieth century, some Acadians were chosen for leadership positions in New Brunswick. In 1912, Monseigneur Édouard LeBlanc of Nova Scotia was named bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]], after a campaign lasting many years to convince the Vatican to appoint an Acadian bishop.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.208</ref><ref>Wilbur, p.78</ref> In 1917, the premier of Prince Edward Island resigned to accept a judicial position, and his Conservative Party chose [[Aubin-Edmond Arsenault]] as successor until the next election in 1919. Arsenault thus became the first Acadian provincial premier of any province in Canada.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aubin-Edmond Arsenault Served as Premier: 1917 to 1919 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/peigov/49582911898/in/album-72157713241253011/ |website=Historical Premiers Gallery |date=February 25, 2020 |publisher=Government of Prince Edward Island |access-date=30 June 2020}}</ref><ref>Landry and Lang, p.232</ref> In 1923, [[Peter Veniot]] became the first Acadian premier of New Brunswick when he was chosen by the Liberal Party to complete the term of the retiring premier until 1925.<ref>Wilbur p.123</ref>

The expansion of Acadian influence in the Catholic church continued in 1936 with the creation of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moncton|Archdiocese of Moncton]]<ref>Wilbur, p.146</ref> whose first archbishop was [[Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson]], and whose [[Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Moncton|Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption]] was completed in 1940. The new archdiocese was expanded to include new predominantly Acadian dioceses in [[Bathurst, New Brunswick]] (1938), in [[Edmundston]] (1944) and in [[Yarmouth, Nova Scotia]] (1953).<ref>Landry and Lang, p.249-50</ref>

====Government of Louis Robichaud====
In 1960, [[Louis Robichaud]] became the first Acadian to be elected premier of a Canadian province. He was elected premier of New Brunswick in 1960 and served three terms until 1970.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.269-271</ref><ref>Wilbur, p.200</ref>

The Robichaud government created the [[Université de Moncton]] in 1963 as a unilingual French-language university,<ref>Landry and Lang, p.284</ref> corresponding to the much older unilingual English-language [[University of New Brunswick]]. In 1964, two different deputy ministers of education were named to direct English-language and French-language school systems respectively.<ref>Landry and Lang p.279</ref> In the next few years, the Université de Moncton absorbed the former Saint-Joseph's College,<ref name=UM>{{cite web |title=Historique - Notre université |url=https://www.umoncton.ca/notreumoncton/historique |website=Université de Moncton |access-date=29 July 2020 |language=fr}}</ref> as well as the École Normale (teacher's college) which trained French-speaking teachers for the Acadian schools.<ref>Wilbur, p.212-13</ref> In 1977, two French-speaking colleges in Northern New Brunswick were transformed into the [[Edmundston]] and [[Shippagan]] campuses of the Université de Moncton.<ref name=UM/>

The [[New Brunswick Equal Opportunity program]] of 1967 introduced reforms of municipal structures, of health care, of education, and of the administration of justice. In general, these changes tended to reduce economic inequality between regions of the province, and therefore tended to favour the disadvantaged Acadian regions.<ref>Landry and Lang p.271</ref>

The [[New Brunswick Official Languages Act (1969)]] declared New Brunswick officially bilingual with English and French having equal status as official languages. Residents have the right to receive provincial government services in the official language of their choice.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Official Languages |url=https://officiallanguages.nb.ca/content/history-of-official-languages/ |website=Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick (OCOLNB) |access-date=3 August 2020}}</ref>

====After 1970====
The New Brunswick government of [[Richard Hatfield]] (1970–87) cooperated with the [[Government of Canada]] in including the right to linguistic equality in the province as a part of the [[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]] of 1982, so that it cannot be rescinded by any future provincial government.<ref>Landry and Lang p.271-272</ref>

Nova Scotia adopted Bill 65 in 1981 to give Acadian schools legal status, and also created a study program including Acadian history and culture. The Acadian schools were placed under separate management in 1996.<ref>Landry and Lang p.280-281</ref>

Prince Edward Island provided French-language schools in 1980 in areas with a sufficient number of Acadian students, followed by a French-language school commission for the province in 1990. In 2000 a decision of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] obliged the provincial government to build French schools at least in [[Charlottetown]] and [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island|Summerside]], the two largest communities.<ref>Landry and Lang p.283</ref>

The new French-language daily newspaper [[L'Acadie Nouvelle]] published in [[Caraquet]] appeared in 1984, replacing L’Évangeline which ceased publication in 1982.<ref>Landry and Lang p.289</ref>

The series of Acadian National Conventions from 1881 to 1972 was followed by an Acadian National Orientation Convention in 1979 at [[Edmundston]].<ref>{{cite web|title=La CONA de 1979: le flirt de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick avec l'indépendance|url=https://www.acadienouvelle.com/actualites/2020/01/02/la-cona-de-1979-le-flirt-de-lacadie-du-nouveau-brunswick-avec-lindependance/|author=Marc Poirier|website=Acadie Nouvelle|date=3 January 2020|access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref> Since 1994, there has been a new series of [[Acadian World Congress]]es at five-year intervals starting with 1994 in southeastern New Brunswick and 1999 in Louisiana. The most recent was centered in [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island]] in 2019.

==Notable military figures of Acadia==
The following list includes those who were born in Acadia (yet not necessarily of Acadian ethnicity) or those who became [[naturalized]] citizens prior to the fall of the French in the region in 1763. Those who came for brief periods from other countries are not included (e.g. [[John Gorham (military officer)|John Gorham]], [[Edward Cornwallis]], [[James Wolfe]], [[Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot|Boishébert]], etc.).

===17th–18th century===
<gallery>
File:Charles d'Aulnay.jpg|[[Charles de Menou d'Aulnay]] – Civil War in Acadia
File:Portrait Françoise-Marie Jacquelin.jpg|[[Françoise-Marie Jacquelin]] – Civil War in Acadia
File:BaronDeStCastin1881byWill H Lowe Wilson Museum Archives.jpg|[[Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin|Baron de Saint-Castin]] – [[King William's War|Castine's War]]
File:Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville.jpg|[[Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville]] – [[Queen Anne's War]]
File:Daniel d'Auger de Subercase.jpg|[[Daniel d'Auger de Subercase]], last governor of Acadia 1706–1710
File:Old Point Monument, Madison, ME.jpg|[[Sébastien Rale]] – [[Father Rale's War]]
File:Jean-BaptisteCopeSignatureJPEG.jpg|Chief [[Jean-Baptiste Cope]] – [[Father Le Loutre's War]]
File:Abbe Le Loutre.jpg|[[Jean-Louis Le Loutre]] – [[Father Le Loutre's War]]
File:Thomaspichon.jpg|[[Thomas Pichon]]
File:Joseph Broussard en Acadia HRoe 2009.jpg|[[Joseph Broussard|Joseph (Beausoleil) Broussard]]
File:JosephGodin.jpg|[[Joseph Godin]] – [[French and Indian War]]
</gallery>

====Others====
* [[Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour]] – Civil War in Acadia
* Chief [[Madockawando]] – [[King William's War]]
* [[John Gyles]] – [[King William's War]]
* Father [[Louis-Pierre Thury]]– [[King William's War]]
* [[Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste]] – [[Queen Anne's War]]
* [[Charles Morris (jurist)]] – [[King George's War]]
* [[Pierre Maillard]] – [[Father Le Loutre's War]]
* [[Joseph-Nicolas Gautier]] – [[Father Le Loutre's War]]
* [[Pierre II Surette]] – [[French and Indian War]]

==Government==
Acadia was in territory disputed between France and Great Britain. England controlled the area from 1621 to 1632 (see [[William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling]]) and again from 1654 until 1670 (see [[William Crowne]] and [[Thomas Temple]]), with control permanently regained by its successor state, the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]], in 1710 (ceded under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713). Although France controlled the territory in the remaining periods, French monarchs consistently neglected Acadia.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=7}} Civil government under the French regime was held by a series of Governors (see [[List of governors of Acadia]]). The government of New France was in Quebec, but it had only nominal authority over the Acadians.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=9}}

The Acadians implemented village self-rule.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=176}} Even after Canada had given up its elected spokesmen, the Acadians continued to demand a say in their own government, as late as 1706 petitioning the monarchy to allow them to elect spokesmen each year by a plurality of voices. In a sign of his indifference to the colony, [[Louis XV]] agreed to their demand.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=175}} This representative assembly was a direct offshoot of a government system that developed out of the seigneurial and church parish imported from Europe. The seigneurial system was a "set of legal regimes and practices pertaining to local landholding, politics, economics, and jurisprudence."<ref name="Fowler2009">{{cite thesis |last=Fowler |first=Jonathan |title=The Neutral French of Mi'kma'ki: And Archaeology of Acadian Identities Prior to 1755 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLMGngEACAAJ&pg=PP1 |year=2009 |type=PhD Thesis |publisher=Oxford University}}</ref> 
Many of the French governors of Acadia prior to [[Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine]] held seigneuries in Acadia. As Seigneur, in addition to the power held as governor, they held the right to grant land, collect their seigneurial rents, and act in judgement over disputes within their domain.<ref name="Fowler2009"/> 
After Acadia came under direct Royal rule under Grandfontaine the Seigneurs continued to fulfill governance roles. 
The Acadian seignuerial system came to an end when the British Crown bought the seigneurial rights in the 1730s.

The Catholic parish system along with the accompanying parish priest also aided in the development Acadian self-government. Priests, given their respected position, often assisted the community in representation with the civil government at Port Royal/Annapolis Royal. Within each parish the Acadians used the elected {{lang|fr|marguilliers}} (wardens) of the ''[[conseil de fabrique]]'' to administer more than just the churches' affairs in the parishes. The Acadians extended this system to see to the administrative needs of the community in general. The Acadians protected this structure from the priests and were "No mere subordinates to clerical authority, wardens were 'always suspicious of any interference by the priests' in the life of the rural parish, an institution which was, ... , largely a creation of the inhabitants."<ref name="Fowler2009"/> During the British regime many of the deputies were drawn from this {{lang|fr|marguillier}} group.

The Acadians occupied a borderland region of the British and French empires. As such the Acadian homeland was subjected to the ravages of war on numerous occasions. Through experience the Acadians learned to distrust imperial authorities (British and French). This is evidenced in a small way when Acadians were uncooperative with census takers.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=7}} Administrators complained of constant in-fighting among the population, which filed many petty civil suits with colonial magistrates. Most of these were over boundary lines, as the Acadians were very quick to protect their new lands.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=8}}

===Governance under the British after 1710===
{{Main|Deputy (Acadian)}}
After 1710, the British military administration continued to utilize the deputy system the Acadians had developed under French colonial rule. Prior to 1732 the deputies were appointed by the governor from men in the districts of Acadian families "as ancientest and most considerable in Lands & possessions,".{{sfn|MacMechan|1900|page=59|loc=<ref>{{Cite web |year = 1900| url=https://archive.org/stream/acalendartwolet01macmgoog#page/n72/mode/2up| title = A calendar of two letter-books and one commission-book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741 }}</ref>}} 
This appears to be in contravention of various [[British penal law]]s which made it nearly impossible for Roman Catholics and Protestant recusants to hold military and government positions. The need for effective administration and communication in many of the British colonies trumped the laws.

In 1732, the governance institution was formalized. Under the formalized system the colony was divided into eight districts. Annually on October 11 free elections were to take place where each district, depending on its size, was to elect two, three, or four deputies. In observance of the Lord's Day, if October 11 fell on a Sunday the elections were to take place on the immediately following Monday. Notice of the annual election was to be given in all districts thirty days before the election date. Immediately following election, deputies, both outgoing and incoming, were to report to Annapolis Royal to receive the governor's approval and instructions. Prior to 1732 deputies had complained about the time and expense of holding office and carrying out their duties. Under the new elected deputy system each district was to provide for the expenses of their elected deputies.

The duties of the deputies were broad and included reporting to the government in council the affairs of the districts, distribution of government proclamations, assistance in the settlement of various local disputes (primarily related to land), and ensuring that various weights and measures used in trade were "Conformable to the Standard".{{sfn|MacMechan|1900|p=190|loc=<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/acalendartwolet01macmgoog#page/n204/mode/2up/|title=A calendar of two letter-books and one commission-book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741|year=1900}}</ref>}}

In addition to deputies, several other public positions existed. Each district had a clerk who worked closely with the deputies and under his duties recorded the records and orders of government, deeds and conveyances, and kept other public records. With the rapid expansion of the Acadian populace, there was also a growing number of cattle and sheep. The burgeoning herds and flocks, often free-ranging, necessitated the creation of the position of Overseer of Flocks. These individuals controlled where the flocks grazed, settled disputes and recorded the names of individuals slaughtering animals to ensure proper ownership. Skins and hides were inspected for brands.

After the purchase by the British Crown of the seigniorial rights in Acadia, various rents and fees were due to the Crown. In the Minas, Piziquid and Cobequid Districts the seigniorial fees were collected by the "Collector & Receiver of All His Majesty's Quit Rents, Dues, or Revenues". The Collector was to keep a record of all rents and other fees collected, submit the rents to Annapolis Royal, and retain fifteen percent to cover his expenses.{{sfn|MacMechan|1900|p=248|loc=<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/acalendartwolet01macmgoog#page/n262/mode/2up|title = A calendar of two letter-books and one commission-book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741|year = 1900}}</ref>}}<ref name=Morris>{{cite book |last=Morris |first=Charles |title=A Brief Survey of Nova Scotia |via=The National Archives of Canada |publisher=The Royal Artillery Regimental Library, Woolwich, UK}}</ref>

==Population==
[[Image:Acadie 1750.JPG|upright=1.5|thumb|Main Acadian communities before the deportation]]
Before 1654, trading companies and patent holders concerned with fishing recruited men in France to come to Acadia to work at the commercial outposts.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=92}} The original Acadian population was a small number of [[indentured servant]]s and soldiers brought by the fur-trading companies.

Gradually, fishermen began settling in the area as well, rather than return to France with the seasonal fishing fleet.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=7}} The majority of the recruiting took place at [[La Rochelle]]. Between 1653 and 1654, 104 men were recruited at La Rochelle. Of these, 31% were builders, 15% were soldiers and sailors, 8% were food preparers, 6.7% were farm workers, and an additional 6.7% worked in the clothing trades.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=92}} Fifty-five percent of Acadia's first families came from western and southwestern France, primarily from [[Poitou]], [[Aquitaine]], [[Angoumois]], and [[Saintonge (region)|Saintonge]]. Over 85% of these (47% of the total), were former residents of the La Chaussée area of Poitou.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=8}}

Many of the families who arrived in 1632 with [[Isaac de Razilly]] shared some blood ties; those not related by blood shared cultural ties with the others.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=8}} The number of original immigrants was very small, and only about 100 surnames existed within the Acadian community.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=7}}

Many of the earliest French settlers in Acadia intermarried with the local [[Mi'kmaq people|Mi'kmaq]] tribe.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=7}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Pritchard |first=James |title=In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kK9wa98I4eEC&pg=PA36 |year=2004 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-82742-3 |page=36 |quote=Abbé Pierre Maillard claimed that racial intermixing had proceeded so far by 1753 that in fifty years it would be impossible to distinguish Amerindian from French in Acadia.}}</ref>

[[File:Flag of Acadia.svg|thumb|This Acadian flag was established at the second Acadian Convention in 1884 at Miscouche, Prince Edward Island.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/acadian/feature_acadian_flag.html |title=Acadian National Flag |website=The Acadians |publisher=CBC |access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref>]]

A [[Paris]]ian lawyer, Marc Lescarbot, who spent just over a year in Acadia, arriving in May 1606, described the Micmac as having "courage, fidelity, generosity, and humanity, and their hospitality is so innate and praiseworthy that they receive among them every man who is not an enemy. They are not simpletons. ... So that if we commonly call them Savages, the word is abusive and unmerited."{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=18}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Peter |last=Landry |title=Marc Lescarbot |work=Early Nova Scotians: 1600-1867 |publisher=Blupete |date=2015 |orig-year=1997 |url=http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Lescarbot.htm}}</ref>

Most of the immigrants to Acadia were poor peasants in France, making them social equals in this new context. The colony had very limited economic support or cultural contacts with France, leaving a "social vacuum" that allowed "individual talents and industry ... [to supplant] inherited social position as the measure of a man's worth."{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=3}} Acadians lived as social equals, with the elderly and priests considered slightly superior.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=175}}

Unlike the French colonists in Canada and the early English colonies in [[Plymouth Colony|Plymouth]] and [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], Acadians maintained an extended kinship system,{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=3}} and the large extended families assisted in building homes and barns, as well as cultivating and harvesting crops.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=11}} They also relied on interfamily cooperation to accomplish community goals, such as building dikes to reclaim tidal marshes.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=270}}

Marriages were generally not love matches but were arranged for economic or social reasons. Parental consent was required for anyone under 25 who wished to marry, and both the mother's and father's consent was recorded in the marriage deed.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=180}} Divorce was not permitted in New France, and annulments were almost impossible to get. Legal separation was offered as an option but was seldom used.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=229}}

The Acadians were suspicious of outsiders and on occasion did not readily cooperate with census takers. The first reliable population figures for the area came with the census of 1671, which noted fewer than 450 people. By 1714, the Acadian population had expanded to 2,528&nbsp;individuals, mostly from natural increase rather than immigration.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=7}} Most Acadian women in the 18th century gave birth to living children an average of eleven times. Although these numbers are identical to those in Canada, 75% of Acadian children reached adulthood, many more than in other parts of New France. The isolation of the Acadian communities meant the people were not exposed to many of the imported epidemics, allowing the children to remain healthier.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=219}}

In 1714, a few Acadian families emigrated to [[Île Royale (New France)|Île Royale]]. These families had little property. But for the majority of Acadians, they could not be enticed by the French government to abandon their family lands for an area which was unknown and uncultivated.<ref>{{cite book|last=Arsenault|first=Bona|title=Histoire des Acadiens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9vN1chq0i0C&pg=PA114|year=2004|publisher=Les Editions Fides|isbn=978-2-7621-2613-6|page=114}}</ref>

Some Acadians migrated to nearby [[Île Saint-Jean]] (now Prince Edward Island) to take advantage of the fertile cropland. In 1732, the island had 347 settlers but within 25 years its population had expanded to 5000 Europeans.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=6}} Much of the population surge on Île Saint-Jean took place in the 1750s, as Acadians left during the rising tensions on peninsular Nova Scotia after the settlement of Halifax in 1749. Le Loutre played a role in these removals through acts of encouragement and threats. The exodus to Île Saint-Jean became a flood with refugees fleeing British-held territory after the initial expulsions of 1755.

In contemporary Atlantic Canada, it is estimated that there are 300,000 French-speaking Acadians.<ref>{{cite web |title=L'Acadie |url=https://anacadie.ca/lacadie/ |website=Assemblée nationale de l'Acadie (anacadie.ca) |access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref> In addition, there is a diaspora of over three million Acadian descendants in the world, primarily in the United States, in Canada outside the Atlantic region, and in France.<ref>{{cite web |title=La diaspora |url=https://anacadie.ca/lacadie/la-diaspora/ |website=Assemblée nationale de l'Acadie (anacadie.ca) |access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref>

==Economy==
Most Acadian households were self-sufficient,{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=10}} with families engaged in subsistence farming only for a few years while they established their farms.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=9}} Very rapidly the Acadians established productive farms that yielded surplus crops that allowed them to trade with both Boston and Louisbourg.{{efn|Fowler's analysis of census records and other primary documents reveal that most farms by 1686 were producing in livestock alone, on a per capita basis, twice as much as was needed for their own consumption. This does not include food crops and the animals harvested from the natural environment.<ref name="Fowler2009"/>}} 
Farms tended to remain small plots of land worked by individual families rather than slave labor.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=12}} The highly productive dyked marshlands and cleared uplands produced an abundance of fodder that supported significant production of cows, sheep and pigs. Farmers grew various grains: wheat, oats, barley, hops and rye; vegetables: peas, cabbage, turnips, onions, carrots, chives, shallots, asparagus, parsnips and beets; fruit: apples, pears, cherries, plums, raspberry and white strawberry.<ref>{{cite book |first=John S. |last=Erskine |title=The French Period in Nova Scotia. A.D. 1500-1758 And Present Remains a historical, archaeological, and botanical survey |publisher=Self Published |location=Wolfville, Nova Scotia |date=1975}}</ref> 
In addition they grew crops of hemp and flax for the production of cloth, rope, etc.<ref name="Fowler2009"/><ref name="Griffiths2005"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Andrew Hill|title=Acadia: the geography of early Nova Scotia to 1760|url=https://archive.org/details/acadiageographyo0000clar|url-access=registration|year=1968|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=9780299050801}}</ref>

From the rivers, estuaries and seas they harvested shad, smelts, gaspereau, cod, salmon, bass, etc., utilizing fish traps in the rivers, weirs in the inter-tidal zone and from the sea with lines and nets from their boats. The fishery was pursued on a commercial basis as in 1715 at the Minas Basin settlements, when the Acadian population there numbered only in the hundreds, they had "between 30 - 40 sail of vessels, built by themselves, which they employ in fishing" reported Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Caulfield to the Board of Trade.{{sfn|MacMechan|1900}} Charles Morris observed the Acadians at Minas hunting beluga whales.<ref name=Morris/> The Acadians also varied their diets by hunting for moose, hare, ducks and geese, and pigeon.<ref name="Fowler2009"/>

After 1630, the Acadians began to build dikes and drain the sea marsh above Port Royal. The high salinity of the reclaimed coastal marshland meant that the land would need to sit for three years after it was drained before it could be cultivated.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=11}} The land reclamation techniques that were used closely resembled the enclosures near La Rochelle that helped make solar salt.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=7}}

As time progressed, the Acadian agriculture improved, and Acadians traded with the British colonies in [[New England]] to gain ironware, fine cloth, rum, and salt. During the French administration of Acadia, this trade was illegal, but it did not stop some English traders from establishing small stores in Port Royal.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=174}} Under English rule, the Acadians traded with New England and often smuggled their excess food to Boston merchants waiting at Baie Verte for transshipment to the French at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=16}}

Many adult sons who did not inherit land from their parents settled on adjacent vacant lands to remain close to their families.{{sfn|Moogk|2000|p=178}} As the Acadian population expanded and available land became limited around Port Royal, new settlements took root to the northeast, in the Upper [[Bay of Fundy]], including Mines, Pisiquid, and [[Beaubassin]]. Many of the pioneers into that area persuaded some of their relatives to accompany them, and most of the frontier settlements contained only five to ten interrelated family units.{{sfn|Brasseaux|1987|p=12}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Canada|Nova Scotia|History}}
* [[Acadia National Park]]
* [[Acadian architecture]]
* [[Acadian culture]]
* [[Acadian French]]
* [[Acadian literature]]
* [[Acadian Renaissance]]
* [[Acadiana]]
* [[Cajuns]]
* [[Expulsion of the Acadians]]
* [[Former colonies and territories in Canada]]
* [[History of the Acadians]] (from 1604 to 21st century)
* [[History of Aquitaine]]
* [[List of Acadians]]
* [[List of governors of Acadia]]
* [[Military history of Nova Scotia]]
* [[Military history of the Acadians]]
* [[Religion in Acadia]]
* [[Acadian cinema]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
;Citations
{{Reflist}}
;Bibliography
{{Refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book |last=Brasseaux |first=Carl A. |title=The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803|publisher=Louisiana State University Press |location=Baton Rouge, LA |year=1987 |isbn=0-8071-1296-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3xaRPSluLsC&pg=PP1}}
* {{cite book |last=Faragher |first=John Mack |title=A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland |url=https://archive.org/details/greatnoblescheme00fara |url-access=registration |year=2005 |publisher=W. W. Norton |isbn=978-0-393-24243-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Grenier |first=John |title=The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JGCin1JJp8cC&pg=PP1 |year=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-44470-5}}
* {{cite book |last=Grenier |first=John |title=The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXoCBQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 |year=2008 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-8566-8}}
* {{cite book |last1=Landry |first1=Nicolas |last2=Lang |first2=Nicole |title=Histoire de l'Acadie |date=2001 |publisher=Septentrion |isbn=2-89448-177-2 |language=fr}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=MacMechan |editor-first=Archibald |title=Nova Scotia Archives II, A Calendar of Two Letter-Books and One Commission-Book in the Possession of the Government of Nova Scotia, 1713–1741 |publisher=Herald Printing House |location=Halifax, Nova Scotia |date=1900 |url=https://archive.org/details/acalendartwolet01macmgoog}}
* {{cite book |last=Moogk |first=Peter |title=La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History |publisher=Michigan State University Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-87013-528-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_4XAAAAYAAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Murdoch |first=Beamish |author-link=Beamish Murdoch |title=A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2wEOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP1 |volume=I |year=1865 |location=Halifax|publisher=James Barnes}}
*{{cite book |last1=Wilbur |first1=Richard |title=The rise of French New Brunswick |date=1989 |publisher=Formac |location=Halifax |isbn=0-88780-070-X}}
* {{cite book|last=Williamson|first=William D.|title=The History of the State of Maine; from its Discovery, A.D. 1602, to the Separation, A.D. 1820, Inclusive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7soTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1|volume=II|year=1832|publisher=Hallowell}}
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==Further reading==
{{Refbegin}}
* Brebner, J. B. ''New England's Outpost; Acadia Before the Conquest of Canada'' (Columbia University Press, 1927).
* {{cite book|last=Clark|first=Andrew Hill|title=Acadia: the geography of early Nova Scotia to 1760|url=https://archive.org/details/acadiageographyo0000clar|url-access=registration|year=1968|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=0-299-05080-7}}
* Griffiths, Naomi. ''The Acadians: Creation of a People'' (McGraw Hill-Ryerson, 1973).
* Griffiths, Naomi. ''The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686–1784'' (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992).
* {{cite book|last=Magord|first=André|title=The Quest for Autonomy in Acadia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YTO6121drgC&pg=PP1|series=Études Canadiennes – Canadian Studies, 18|year=2008|location=Brussels, Belgium|publisher=P.I.E. Peter Lang|isbn=978-90-5201-476-0}}
* {{cite book|last=Plank|first=Geoffrey|title=An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWwtrvUzceIC&pg=PP1|year=2001|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-1869-8}}
* {{cite book|last=Jobb|first=Dean W.|author-link=Dean Jobb|title=The Acadians: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzksi8dKPCsC&pg=PP1|year=2005|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-470-15772-5}} (published in the United States as {{cite book|title=The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gc6OplM0jsAC&pg=PP1|isbn=978-0-470-73961-7|last1 = Jobb|first1 = Dean W.|date = January 14, 2010| publisher=John Wiley & Sons }})
* Rawlyk, George A. ''Nova Scotia's Massachusetts: A Study of Massachusetts-Nova Scotia Relations, 1630–1784'' (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1973).
* {{cite book|last=Smith|first=Philip Henry|title=Acadia: A Lost Chapter in American History|url=https://archive.org/details/acadiaalostchap01smitgoog|year=1884|publisher=Self Published|location=Pawling, New York}}
* {{cite book |last=Richard|first=Édouard|title=Acadia: Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History|volume=I|date=1895|location=New York|publisher=Home Book Company|url=https://archive.org/details/acadiamissinglin01richuoft}}
* {{cite book |last=Richard|first=Édouard|title=Acadia: Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History|volume=II|date=1895|location=New York|publisher=Home Book Company|url=https://archive.org/details/acadiamissinglin02richuoft}}
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==External links==
{{Wikivoyage|Acadian Coast}}
{{EB1911 poster|Acadie}}
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.patrimoineacadien.com Acadian Heritage Portal] {{in lang|fr}} – Acadian history, genealogy and folklore 
* [http://www.snacadie.org National Society of Acadia] {{in lang|fr}}
* [http://www.acadian-home.org Acadian Ancestral Home by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino – a repository for Acadian history & genealogy]

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